SonicWALL SonicOS 6.2.6 plus generally-available SonicWALL Capture offer advanced threat protection

· The SonicWALL Capture Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) Service transitions from technical preview to general availability

· New SonicWALL SonicOS 6.2.6 release also features new Content Filtering Service 4.0, with even more administrative controls for better performance and ease of use

With the general availability of SonicOS 6.2.6 firmware, SonicWALL Capture is now the industry’s first multi-engine sandbox that enables customers to block suspicious files until a verdict is reached. Additionally, SonicOS 6.2.6 features an enhanced Content Filtering Service that gives organisations the power to control access to inappropriate or unproductive Web content.

Han Chon, Director, Security Solutions, Dell Asia Pacific & Japan said, “Our customers’ strong testimonials are proof that our Capture sandboxing solution is the best way to effectively guard against the latest threats, including zero-day attacks. Their statements on realised value reflect our original design intent for this solution, to provide a threat analysis technology that malicious code can’t detect and evade. Attackers develop more than 60 million pieces of unique malware every year, and the SonicWALL Capture ATP Service is the market’s only cloud-based offering to include multi-layer sandbox technologies that use system emulation, virtualisation, memory analysis, and other techniques to detect and prevent these threats from entering the network. By including support for Capture in SonicWALL OS firmware 6.2.6, we are providing our customers with fast response times, high security effectiveness and reduced total cost of ownership.” 

Malicious code authors have developed techniques allowing malware to detect the presence of existing sandboxes and use this information to evade detection. To combat these techniques, SonicWALL Capture utilises three technically different cloud-based threat analysis sandboxing engines, making evasion almost impossible. Capture also has the ability to accept a broad range of file sizes and types and can be configured to block suspicious files from entering the system until a verdict is reached.

The new SonicWALL Content Filtering Service 4.0 available in SonicOS 6.2.6 enables IT to enforce protection and productivity policies and block inappropriate, unproductive and illegal Web content from the network. Key new features in this version block-page override, bandwidth management and confirm actions as well as YouTube restricted mode.

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SonicWALL SonicOS 6.2.6 will be generally available on August 1. SonicWALL Capture ATP Service will be available for SonicWALL SuperMassive 9000 series, NSA firewalls and select TZ firewall models on August 1. Current customers should contact their account representatives or via sales at sonicwall.com